Railroad Model Craftsman

Mid to late 80s, I believe.

He's also the editor of Model Railroad Craftsman.

But he's got a Facebook page that I follow, and he does some neat stuff.

And, you know, what's he call it? The HO layout that will never be built, he calls it.

This is a point that I'm going to argue and hopefully convince you of in subsequent parts of this series.

So as a result of all of this work, I became the world's foremost expert on U.S. DMUs, and I naturally decided to write a 9,000-word article series for Railroad Model Craftsman about modeling them.

In pitching the article series to the chief editor of Railroad Model Craftsman, Otto von Drack wisely asked me if I had any pictures of DMUs.

No? Was I supposed to? And so in order to make the articles go forward, I had to collect some pictures.

And that ended up with a five-week, 14-state Amtrak trip to photograph every single DMU transit system in the United States, highlighted here in lavender with all of the other Amtrak trips that I've taken in dark purple in the background.